Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough

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Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Jerry Saltz

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I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

John Shirley

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill

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It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

Ron Silver

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She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.

Mary Stuart Masterson

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Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

Michelle Dean

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I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.

Mo Brooks

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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Diogenes

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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

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Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Terrio

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The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

Conor Oberst

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The thing I always laugh about is we tried for years to make successful television. And at the end of the day, we never had a show run as long as our run at Marvel.

Anthony Russo

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